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Sania Mirza Wins Tennis Tournament

By Mohammad Yusha • Dec 23rd, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Sania Mirza beat Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia in the final of the 13th Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge in Dubai. She won 4-6, 6-3, 6-0.
Sania Mirza lost the first set but showed courage to come back into the game and win it.
Sania Mirza’s form has seen a slump after a wrist injury since the last three [...]



Zulu’s Strange Journey

By Rai Azlan • Nov 9th, 2010 • Category: Features

Zulqarnain Haider the person who played key role in last game to make Pakistan win and he was the hero of the moment that day. The same Zulqarnain, I gave him name - Zulu, is missing today and as per his fb status, he is doing all this as a result of life threat he [...]



The Brutal State!

By Dr. Haider Mehdi • Mar 29th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It is often nicer to believe your destiny is in your hands than that your fate is sealed by nature or circumstance. So it has been with successive generations of Pakistanis and their erratic lives, and the sudden feeling that, like a 20/20 cricket match tied at the last ball of the game, their lives’ [...]



Confidence in Dubai Job Market Increases

By Shayan Khan • Jan 12th, 2010 • Category: Misc

A new survey carried out by Robert Half, the world’s leading specialised recruitment company, has revealed that confidence is returning to the local job market, and has also given a deeper insight in to the effects of the economic downturn at the 
employee level.

Despite challenging economic realities across the world, less than 30 per cent [...]



Seymour Hersh’s Nuggets of Naiveté

By Momin Iftikhar Momin • Nov 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The angry reaction in Pakistan to Seymour Hersh’s article in the New Yorker, once viewed in the context of its ludicrous contents, seems justifiable. The long winded report (7000 words approx) is based on unnamed sources, its contents stand repudiated by government officials in Pakistan and US and the hypotheses it outlines don’t even pass [...]



Thinking Leaders Needed

By Salman Mugsi • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

There is no doubt that this is the most difficult times for Pakistan. The administrative and the military infrastructure is under attack and the morale of the public is all time low. Democracy was hope which has diminished and people have stopped caring.
In these difficult times for the country, the leaders are safely tucked. President [...]



Who is the Client of XDS ?

By Guest Blogger • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics

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Who is the client of XDS?
XDS an Unauthorized US based manufacturer of Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) and bulletproof Jackets in Pakistan?
We should thank the Karachi based young and genius investigative journalist Shaukat Ali for breaking the story of unauthorized APCs and bulletproof jackets manufacturing company in Karachi. On 19th august 2009 Mr. [...]



Shame Shame Shame

By Altaf Khan • May 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics

We didn’t really need the survey conducted by the US-based International Republican Institute to know that we are fed up of our leaders. Though the rating of opposition leader Mian Nawaz Sharif are higher than the current rulers, the response was dismal altogether and people showed their utter lack of hope from these leaders.
And [...]



Benazir Loyalists Versus Zardari Loyalists

By Rohail Butt • Jan 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

At last the compassion vote to the Zardari is wearing out which he got after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the rifts are appearing from within the party and outside. A new faction from from the central executive committee of PPP has started raising it’s voice about the fact that not enough is being [...]



Merey Sartaj : Benazir Bhutto’s Letter to Zardari

By Aal e Hashmat • Jan 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Much have been said, opined and criticized upon ‘Mumbai explosions’. People are going to be sick on reading about and listening on the issue of this planned terrorist attack. No doubt that this episode has left all of us upset with injured and indignant hearts but at the same time the stories of ‘hollow & [...]